Sunday, 5 April 2015

Lotus still looking to unlock the full potential of their new package

The Lotus F1 Team’s Track Operations Director Alan Permane
believes his team are still learning when it comes to their 2015 package and
building their new partnership with Mercedes Benz.

The Enstone outfit have endured a difficult start to the new
season having made the switch from Renault to Mercedes over the winter however
this has not been a factor in the team’s issues. In the opening race of the
season in Melbourne Australia the team managed to get both Pastor Maldonado and
Romain Grosjean into the top ten in qualifying.

Maldonado and Grosjean failed to finish the opening race of
the season in Australia while last time out in Malaysia, Maldonado failed to
complete the race while Grosjean finished the race in eleventh place.

Permane believes however that updates that they will bring
in the upcoming races should help them to improve their performances following
a difficult year in 2014 where the team scored just ten points and finished the
season in eighth place in the championship.

In China next weekend the Enstone
outfit plan to run a new front wing while for the first race of the European
leg of the season in Barcelona next month the team will have new nose for the
car.

The team are hopeful that they will have a stronger race in
China next week as they aero upgrades coming to the car.